REAL TIME MONITORING AND CONTROL OF THERMAL RECOVERY OPERATIONS FOR HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS

摘要

Systems and techniques, including computer programs, for monitoring and controlling thermal recovery involve generating 215 input parameters for use in real time monitoring and controlling of a thermal recovery operation for a reservoir 105. The input parameters to a thermal generator are generated using a reservoir simulator 110 and an economic model 115, and the input parameters have a corresponding predicted 200 output of the thermal recovery operation. Data indicative of actual output from the reservoir is received 250, and the reservoir simulator is automatically updated 265 based on a comparison 260 of the data indicative of the actual output with the predicted output.